Collapsible display device



B. l. SOMMERS COLLAPSIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE Filed Jan. 5, 1923 v Jnventon 39 JeZalI 507727728715;

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oeLL'ArsIBLE- DIsPL tY 'nn vionl Application fires January 5,1923. Serial ml's c, s vijf' 5' Be it known that L'Brma I. Sorta/tans, a

citizen of the United States, and a resident V of Tuckahoe, in the county-ofwestchester andjState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Col: lapsible Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.- p H This invention relates to collapsible display devices and has for its object to pro-- vide a device of the character. specified, of'

*said'score. line 13', upwardly, the blank is, p out through on lines 5 6; said lines being:

simple construction and employing a minimum of materialfor the purpose. I

With these ends in view and others which will appear later herein my. improvements comprise features illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the drawing accompanying this specification, wherein V Figure 1 is a front perspective viewof the device in erected display condition. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the-blank which may be folded into the form of Fig.1, Fig. dis a fragmentary rear perspective View of a portionof what is shown in Fig. 1, illustrating the construction and assembly. The figuresof the drawing are to substantially one scale. y

lly display device is directed to the representation of a plurality of boxes, cartons or the like arranged corner tocorner in a horizontal row, or of a plurality of stacks of such articles, and preferably arranged in pyramidal form. The device may be formed from a unitary blank of approximately rectangular contour having vertical score lines for defining the several vertical panels or sides of the boxes represented, there being only two vertical sides of each box required in accordance with my improvements. In Fig. 2 blank B has a horizontal base 2, opposite end edges 3,4, and vertical score lines, as 5, 6, 7, 8, defining the several upright sides of the several boxes represented. In

the illustrated form of my improvements D of larger size than those in' the first stack, and the third stack, E, which maybe the middle stack, is of stil larger size both transversely and in height, whereby a ,py

ramidal effect is had.

In Fig. 2, between edge 3 and score line 5. is" front an in. in ma ysackae boxes-G; and betweenscore lines 5. and 6 is endwall 10 .there'of, and between score lines 7 D, andbetween'fscore lines? and 8 isen'd wall 12 thereof,"and so forth; For; defining the-top walls ofthe several stacks, trans- I verse scorezlines, as 13 to stack G, extend.

'6 and 7 isifront, wal'l llof thesecond stack,

acros both'panels-or sides {as 9,"10'ofthe blank, a distance fromthe top of said blank equal to the-width of end wall 10, and from the upward continuation of score lines5, 6, respectively. The top wall of each section, as 14 of stack C, is provided withan' upwardly ex panel 10 and which may for convenience be of equal height. withtop'walllla and is'p'roe vided' near its right handedge ewah slot. Y

18. Said slot is located fromedge-bsa dis;

tance sufficient to provide a substantial wall between said slot and edge 6, andv tab 15 has'its root 16 inset-from the top edgeiof wall:

14: a distance equal 18 from edge 6; V

In erecting the to the distance of slot line of articulation :5 into approximately device in displayposition', panel 9, is folded backwardly along right angle relation to panel 10, and fiap- 17 is folded downwardly into right angle relationto panel 10, then tab- 15 is folded back along line 16 at right angles to top l land said to is folded down to cause tab 15 to enter s at 18 in flap 17, and finally against said flap, into right angle relation to the vertical sides of the box. Thenend 10 is folded forwardly along line 6 and the erec tion of the second section, D, .of the display is proceeded with as just described in connection with section C. The other sections may then be similarly erected'; The details of assemblywill be clearly understoodlby reference to Fig. 3. V i

There is thus produced the employment of three panel members only for each box or stack, and which disa display device": representing a plurality of complete boxes or stacks of boxes in diagonal relation, by

' for alternately representing the iOl'll', landuppe edges ofalternate panels, top walls,

articulated to the upper edges of those al ternate panels between the panels to which the'flap's are articulated, and coacting means on said flaps and top walls for interlocking when said'ilaps are fold-ed at an angle to their respective panels and said top' walls folded there'over for representing the tops of said boxes and for holding the display in erected position. 2. .A collapsible display device including in combination a plurality of horizontally arranged upright panels articulatedtogether and folded along their lines of articulation for alternately representing the front and end Walls of a plurality of boxes or stack of boxes respectively, flaps articulated to the upper edges of alternate panels, top walls articulated to the upper edges of those alternate panelsv between the panels to which the flaps are articulated, a slot near one edge of each of said flaps, and a tongue on each of said top walls having its root inset from an edge thereof a distance equal to the distance clone of said slots from its contiguous flap edge, said tongues being adapted for entering said slots when each pair of said llaps and top walls are folded into substantially one plane respectively, for

representing the tops of said boxes and for holding the display in'erected position,

3. A blank adapted for folding into a dis play device including in combination a plurality of horizontally arranged panels articulated together along vertical parallel lines, for alternately representing the front and end Walls-of a plurality of boxes or stacks of boxes respectively, flaps articulated to the upper edges of alternate panels, top Walls articulated to the upper edges of those alternate panels between the panels to which the-flaps are articulated, and coacting niea: s on said flaps and top walls for interlocking when said flaps are'folded an angle to the respective panels and said top walls folded thereovenr 4;. A blank adapted for folding into a display device including in combination a plurality of horizontally arranged panels azrtibulated together along vertical parallel lines, r alternately representing the front and end walls of a plurality of boxes or stacks of boxes respectively, flaps rticulatedjto the upper edges of alternate panels, top walls articulated to theupper edges of those alternale panels between the panels to which the flaps are articulated, a slot near one edge of each of said flaps, and a tongue on each of said top walls having its root inset from an edge thereof a distance equal to the distance of one of said slots from its contiguous flap edge, said tongues being adapted for entering said slots when each pair of said flaps and top walls are folded into substantially one plane respectively.

in witness whereof, I hereby afiii; my signature this a day of January, 1923.

BELA. l. SOMMERS. 

